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NORMAN v. STATE

No. 41677.

80 So.2d 858 (1955)

227 La. 904

James G. NORMAN v. STATE of Louisiana.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 23, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Loret, D. Ross Banister, Philip K. Jones, Baton Rouge, Francis X. Vinet, New Orleans, H. S. Hawthorne, Bastrop, Louis S. Quinn, W. Crosby Pegues, Jr., Baton Rouge, General Counsel La. Dept. of Highways, for defendant, appellant, applicant.

Lunn, Irion, Switzer, Trichel & Johnson, Shreveport, for intervenor.

Browne, Browne & Bodenheimer, Shreveport, G. M. Bodenheimer, Jr., Shreveport, of counsel, for respondent.

McCALEB, Justice.

Plaintiff, James G. Norman, suffered painful and serious personal injuries on the morning of September 21, 1948, when a wooden bridge spanning Bayou Bartholomew in Morehouse Parish collapsed under the heavily loaded truck he was driving. Plaintiff was employed as a truck driver for Dowell, Inc., which is engaged in the business of acidizing oil and gas wells, and, at the time of the accident, he was driving the middle truck in a convoy of three which...

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